Four-ways will tie Main Street in knots

To The Editor: After reading recent letters regarding the proposed (or imposed) four-way stop plan for Main Street, I felt obliged to offer some additional insight.

As a small business owner, I've driven down Main every weekday for the last six years on the way to my bank.

While there were times during the summer that traffic would become congested between Fifth Avenue and U.S. 64, converting Main's intersections to four-way stops is an absolutely absurd response. Even the four-way test conducted in the dead of winter with little vehicular traffic and virtually no pedestrians caused confusion and discourtesy.

Now consider those same intersections during the busy summer months and you have a recipe for absolute chaos. For example: the potential of up to six vehicles and countless pedestrians all trying to determine who goes next at the multi-lane intersections of Allen and Barnwell.

Instead of converting Main into a massive traffic jam, I hope city officials would reconsider, applying a good dose of logic and basic common sense before forcing this ludicrous concept on Hendersonville's residents and visitors.

If you don't want traffic on Main Street, turn it into a pedestrian mall.

K. R. BrownLaurel Park

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